Today we’re going to go through a powerful exercise designed to build your gesture skills, test your knowledge of the figure, build your brain’s visual memory and your ability to draw from imagination. So it’s useful for a lot of things. There’s a video version and an article version below that: We’ve teamed up with Simon […]
I’ve had that deep desire to create artwork my whole life. But it’s been so difficult, especially drawing people. This whole channel is designed to help with that if you feel that too. I used to just love drawing as a kid. I drew this comic, with the x-men plus not one but two new […]
You arrive in Artlandia with nothing, no abilities just passion. You pitch a tent to live in Line City, on Messy Lines Lane. Around this civilised area of the map is this sprawling jungle. It’s so wild it’s uncharted, the map is just grey. But within that jungle, there’s little pockets that have […]
In our article, the 5 stages of learning to draw people, we talked about how everyone starts at the symbols stage, where your drawings get distorted by preconceptions about how people look. The next stage was the analytical stage, where you learn to observe and draw what you see. With the help of my wonderful […]
How did Simon Luty learn to combine gesture, structure, volume, and an expressive and creative style? He has 5 tips for you if you are also learning to draw figures. In my meanderings around Instagram I came across a really good artist. He has managed to build up a variety of skills to a high […]
What on earth should you focus on when you have seconds or just a few minutes to draw a figure? What should your mind be doing, what should your eyes be doing? We need a strategy, in this article you can read my mind as I draw. If you’d prefer to read this tutorial as […]
If there’s one word that is the centrepiece to learning to draw, it’s ‘habits’. This video is all about building a drawing habit. If you’d prefer to read it, it is also written out as an article below the video. If you have a habit of practising and studying drawing, you can become amazing at […]
Are you in the symbols stage, the drawing what you see stage, the simplification stage, the expressive stage or the creative stage? Are you stuck in one of these stages? That’s what we’re covering in today’s video. It is also written out as an article below the video. I’m still going through the learning […]
It looks easy and turns out beautiful in the tutorial by the expert, but what is it like to actually do this method when you’re still learning? We asked subscribers to our newsletter to volunteer and test the method out, and the results were varied and fascinating. (You can watch the video or read the […]
If you’re aspiring to be a good artist, but feel like you’re ‘behind’ or regret not having started sooner – well firstly you’re not alone. A lot of people feel that way whether they’re 20 years old or 80 years old, including me. And secondly, I made this video/ article for you. We’re going to […]